Submission Guidelines for Scholars

Now Accepting Submissions

We are now accepting submissions for the spring cycle of Volume 67. Please review the following instructions. We will continue to accept submissions until April 2019.

Submission Guidelines

The UCLA Law Review prefers articles between 10,000 and 25,000 words in length (including footnotes). We do not publish articles exceeding 35,000 words except in extraordinary circumstances. Works shorter than 10,000 words can be submitted to Discourse, our online publication.

The UCLA Law Review only reviews articles submitted electronically via Scholastica (preferred) or by mail as a hard copy. Email submissions are not reviewed.

The Review Process

The Articles Department attempts to review every article within eight weeks of its receipt.

Expedited Review

If you have received an offer from another journal and wish to request expedited review, please use Scholastica's expedite feature. If you submitted a hard copy, please email us at lrsubmit@lawnet.ucla.edu to request expedited review. We will do our best to review your piece by your expedite request deadline. If the deadline changes, please update the expedite date through Scholastica as soon as possible.

Withdrawing Your Submission

If you accept an offer of admission from another journal, please use Scholastica to withdraw your submission to the UCLA Law Review as soon as possible. If you submitted a hard copy, please email us at lrsubmit@lawnet.ucla.edu to withdraw your submission.

Offer of Publication

The Chief Articles Editor will contact you by phone and/or email with an offer of publication. Once you accept the UCLA Law Review’s offer, we expect you to withdraw all other submissions.